[RightLady]

About 15 yrs ago, a woman approached me in downtown Akron and ask for money for her lunch, and I gave her $1. She told me that wasn’t enough she needed at least 5 for a lunch and she hadn’t eaten in a while. I told her to get a box of pop corn for 50 cents which I have done when low on money. Thank God she left me alone. I will never do it again.

[hinckley buzzard]

I try always to be charitable with panhandlers and beggars, so long as they are not aggressive or menacing. I know that some of them, maybe a majority, are not that deeply in need of my five bucks. But I also know that anyone who is willing to go to the street begging, even as a scam, has a deep spiritual wound.

I also know as a Christian, that God loves this guy just as much as He loves me. So who am I to sit in judgment when I can do something for him at so little cost to myself.